Re: '85 505 not starting...oh for heven's sake....
Tamara Saarinen (tsaari61@mail.caps.maine.edu)
Sun, 2 Nov 1997 19:34:33 -0500
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>this is really embarrassing...
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>I think God is getting me back for selling Matthew (the son of muscle car and
>1 ton american pickup truck fame) one of my pet French cars...
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>and kicking me again for not going over and rescuing him myself.....by the
>time Gene got to him Friday, he was on alternator #2, battery #3......and
>they spent the night installing starter #2..battery #4.....
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>the understatement of the day.....they missed the obvious....
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>the solution- a ton of dirt & corrosion in the base of the ignition relay....
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>that's it.....
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>Gene and I trooped over with tools et. al. and just started testing , the
>ignition relay wasn't operating, and its right there on top.....
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>the people who owned the beast before us lived on a really awful dirt
>road(beautiful country..really krappy roads...dirt dirt dirt.....)
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>see, I've owned these cars for too long... I always go for the relays
>first....have a few spares in the glovebox...
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>and I know that unless a component is obviously failing...(relatively
>rare) its gonna be a relay.. or something else small...loose connection,
>corrosion....
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>Sooo... Matt's girlfriend is now convinvced she is calling ME.... not
>Gene...and thinking the guys were pretty dumb not to interview the relays
>first....
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>maybe they were.... but anyway.....another Peugeot back on the road....
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>and only a little dirt under MY fingernails...
thanks for thoughtful suggstions, sorry to waste people's energy....
its not rocket science......just cars......REALLY!!!
upward and onward....
tamara (the relay fairy)
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